The prevalence of evil and suffering, especially agonies endured by innocent victims, has long since caused Kemi Badenoch to abandon belief in a loving God.
Now an agnostic, the Tory leader told an interviewer this week that it was the monstrous crimes of Josef Fritzl which caused her to cast aside her Christian faith. In 2008, Austrian police discovered that Fritzl had imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar and repeatedly raped her over a 24-year period. She gave birth to seven children while in captivity.
